Do your kids get a letter from the Easter bunny and do they leave a carrot out?

[Shopperami]

Do your kids get a letter from the Easter bunny and do they leave a carrot out?

American nonsense.

American nonsense

I'll take my nonsense from anywhere tbh, I'm not fussy.

We have always said the easter bunny leaves the eggs out for DC to hunt. We dont put a carrot out and its not like a "visit" though. And the costumes freak me out. But the bunny drops the eggs on his way through. I did this when I was little almost 40 years ago and my kids do it, I thought that was normal? Otherwise what does the Easter Bunny do?

Bloody hell..now I will absolutely admit I overcompensate on holidays , we've had an involved Easter egg hunt including decorations , signs and in our case dinosaurs (probably best not to ask on that one ...the answer will make me sound like a lunatic ) , an egg and spoon race with medals and Easter dinner with a macaroons dinner cake and even I think a letter from the Easter bunny and leaving a carrot is a bit bonkers

I'm all for encouraging magic but if I think it's a bit over the top for a holiday rest assured that it definately is ( this is coming from a woman that in a fit of guilt over working so much created a whole back story and convinced her DC that they had been in the polar express...including fake snow on their slippers when they woke up and strategically placed mini bells)...i assure so know I've lost it so I'm a good yard stick for assessing over the top

No....just nope....i am not adding a carrot and Easter bunny letter

Dp will actually stage an intervention on that one ( a bit like the time I went a tad over the top with squawking fake ravens at halloween that scared the crap put of him when he came home because I forgot to warn him and he nearly fell into a bush)

No.

For god's sake will people stop making everything a thing. Not everything has to be A Thing. Not every tiny deviation from the usual routine has to be marked with a celebration and brand new traditions. Fucking carrot my arse.

I may have had it up to here with baby showers and gender reveals and 6 month old birthday parties and first fart announcements

Your day sounds good though Shiny. I just draw the line at a carrot and letter. People women have enough to keep up with.

I'm entirely with you on that honestly....there really does have to be a line....frankly for my own damn sake. Ban the carrot leaving ...the bunny can source his own snacks thank you.

Now I'm scared that Frank from Donnie Darko has a special key to my house and let's himself in when I'm sleeping...

It's like 'elf on a f'ing shelf'......it's a made up 'tradition'.

yes dd does. doesn't hurt anyone. Whats the problem with that?

Easter bunny hides eggs in the garden or the woods and that’s it! They know it’s us but they love it! (Dds 17 and 14!!) xx

This is the naffest thing. Seriously. Naff.

It’s not tradition. It’s just fucking twee.

Wtf how's a bunny going to write a letter?!

At least Santa is a human...

I grew up in the US and no one ever had letters from the Easter Bunny or left carrots. Must be a load of British nonsense.

People saying "too American for me" imagine saying no to curry as it's "too Indian for me"

Well that's because cultural imperialism is a thing. Romans invented it, Brits perfected it, Americans have spread it to the farthest reaches of the world. Indians haven't.

Like it, @Kismett!

I don't think we can blame the Yanks. I think we need to blame the shops that peddle this junk and perpetrate those myths so we spend money and ridiculous quantities of time on crap.

Jesus died on a cross so we can write letters to a fucking rabbit? ahhh! the true meaning of Easter!

Op? Still awake?

Is this a thing? Never heard of it!

We did have the Easter Bunny as a thing, but I think it’s bizarre how people assume every single thing they dislike as too American. A lot of interpretations of American traditions seem very strange to me here.

I don’t see anything wrong in celebrating the holiday however you’d like to though. I do think Brits have something against anyone enjoying themselves too much!

No. Rabbits don't have opposable thumbs.

I was going to write a letter to let the kids know how many eggs were hidden, but couldn’t arsed. I just went in the house and told the kids I saw a giant pink rabbit in the garden who said something about 24 eggs.

An American friend leaves out baskets of small chocolate eggs and toys for her kids.

Nope no Easter bunny here!

I'm not sure it's American nonsense is it? PIL (south of Germany) were laying on Easter egg hunts 40-odd years ago for DH and BIL and their grandparents did also.

It's a totally alien concept to me so I leave it all to DH and PIL. We actually saw BIL yesterday and he was really shocked when I told him we had never done Easter egg hunts as children and it's not really a thing in the UK Same with decorations, except we don't have any because DH can't be arsed to organise it.

I think it was originally a German thing, then it spread to the US via German immigrants, and then eventually to the UK from the US.

It's like Halloween was originally a Celtic festival, then went to the US, then to England. So English people think Halloween is American, whereas Scottish and Irish people don't.

That would make sense. Turnip carving is the tradition at Halloween where PIL are, plus the kids parading through the village carrying their lit lanterns and singing songs (no trick or treating though).